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It takes me 2-3x longer to unwind such crap than it would for me to write it from scratch
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doubling in the rate at which tech debt code is produced
In the thread “Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: New engineers produce bad code at unprecedented rates, increasing review time.
… Anecdotally, as a principal engineer, I’ve definitely noticed that new senior engineers on the team that say they are using chatgpt/copilot produce unprecedentedly bad code at unprecedented rates. It takes me 2-3x longer to unwind such crap than it would for me to write it from scratch. As we grow the team, this will definitely put us out of business unless we find a way to fix it. …